European honey bee

How has the introduction of the European honey bee by humans to Australia’s various wide ecosystems impacted Australia’s biodiversity? THE EUROPEAN HONEY BEE The European honey bee (or western honey bee, Apis Mellifera) is a species of bee that naturally occurs in Europe, but has been introduced by humans to a variety of foreign ecosystems, including Australia and New Zealand. It is of ecological importance because of the effect that this introduced species has on the biodiversity of native wildlife

Rupasinha, Danny Hoskins, James McCusker, Oliver Tancred, Josh Davis, Joe Howes, Giselle Edge TITLE OF RESEARCH PROJECT PROPOSAL: Comparing differential gene expression of the European honey bee Apis mellifera and the Asian honey bee Apis Cerana when infected with Varroa destructor SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACT: The European honey bee Apis mellifera is in serious decline as colonies worldwide are wiped out by the Varroa mite, Varroa destructor. Even though many colonies die out once infected there is significant

is to determine whether Africanized Honey Bees show significant differences in productivity and efficiency when rendering a frame using an artificial foundation and a frame using an organic wax foundation useful. Introduction Originally African honey bees (Apis Mellifera Scutella) were brought from Africa to the Southern American continent in 1956 by the Brazilian geneticist Warwick Kerr. Kerr thought that mixing native Brazilian honey bees (European honey bee descendants scientifically known as

It turned out that African alleles were more dominant than the European ones, which caused the changes. Impact on the Americas African bees back in sub-Saharan Africa did not have much of an impact on the organisms there because the conditions were harsh and the bees were heavily predated. The Americas are a different story. It is more densely populated than Northern Africa, and there are no predators of the bee here. Some of its direct effects include being of a hazard to humans and

a variety of impacts, many of which are unpredictable. The Africanized honey bee (also known as the “killer bee” in the media community or apis mellifera scutellata among scientists) provides an excellent case study of how even an intentionally introduced invasive species can become uncontrollable and problematic. 2.0 Brief History: Honey bees are a non-native species in both North and South America. European honey bees (EHB) were first introduced as a relatively mild species. The EHB,

The invasive European honeybees create a competitive environment for the native bumblebee as their ecological niches (species’ total use of abiotic and biotic resources) overlap; thus, creating a niche differentiation (the increase in species using resources causes a wider range of resources being used) between the two species. The invasive and native bees exemplify a symbiotic relationship in which interaction could possibly be detrimental to both species—competition (an interaction in which species

Hi Professor Dorsner I hope your week has been pleasant and stress free. Thank you for changing my marks in the discussion forum. However, after the change I realised my journal post may have come across as being arrogant and a bit of a whinge about only receiving a 9 when I deserved a 10. This was not the intent of my journal post. I only meant to highlight that I can be a bit highly strung sometimes and that I should appreciate a mark as high as 9 rather than being disappointed I did not

The european honey bee (Apis mellifera), also known as the western honey bee, are naturally occurring in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Due to the species’ invasive nature, they now occupy every continent on Earth except Antarctica. The european honey bee was domesticated and introduced to North America with the purpose of human assistance. With the species’ wide cultivation, the european honey bee rapidly became the most important pollinator for agriculture globally. Positive effects of the

CHAPTER 2 THE BEES What Is a Honey Bee? Beekeepers commonly talk about bees as just that—bees. We usually do not use the qualifying adjective, honey. We know, though, that our bees are honey bees and that they are very specific bees within a very large family. To put honey bees in context, consider that on a worldwide basis there are perhaps 20,000 different species of bees and in North America there are 2,000 to 3,000 of those species. In most of the states we can probably find about

specifically the western honey bee. Advocates for saving the bees spread information on social media. These posts can show how to start a bee garden and list off the plants that would become “extinct” without honey bees and claim that without honey bees agriculture in the United States would cease to exist. Others have bees that say “If we die, you die with us,” and state that the ecosystem would fail without the honey bee. But are either of these claims true? Western honey bees are one of the many